Alveston / Alvestone

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Source caption: "On the south wall is a weathered Norman tympanum, a reminder of the preceeding building on this site."
Scene Description: Source caption: "On the south wall is a weathered Norman tympanum, a reminder of the preceeding building on this site."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4344402862/] [accessed 2 March 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "The church of St James at Alveston was built in 1839 to the designs of W.Walker to replace the much smaller ancient building at the other end of the village (of which only the chancel now survives). The interior is spacious under a wide hammerbeam roof and dominated by some fine frnishings, particularly the brightly coloured Arts & Crafts rood-screen and panelled pulpit, presumably the work of Temple Moore who was responsible for the nearby vicarage c1908. There is stained glas by Worcestershire architect Frederick Preedy in the 5 lancets of the east window and the small rosette in the west tower."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St James at Alveston was built in 1839 to the designs of W.Walker to replace the much smaller ancient building at the other end of the village (of which only the chancel now survives). The interior is spacious under a wide hammerbeam roof and dominated by some fine frnishings, particularly the brightly coloured Arts & Crafts rood-screen and panelled pulpit, presumably the work of Temple Moore who was responsible for the nearby vicarage c1908. There is stained glas by Worcestershire architect Frederick Preedy in the 5 lancets of the east window and the small rosette in the west tower."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4341495434/] [accessed 2 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "All that survives of Alveston's ancient parish church is the chancel, itself an 18th cenury rebuilding in rendered brick, which has stood alone picturesquely since the new church at the other end of the village replaced it in 1839.[...] It is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust"
Scene Description: Source caption: "All that survives of Alveston's ancient parish church is the chancel, itself an 18th cenury rebuilding in rendered brick, which has stood alone picturesquely since the new church at the other end of the village replaced it in 1839.[...] It is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4340753707/] [accessed 2 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

the new St. James'
Scene Description: the new St. James'
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4340715889/] [accessed 2 March 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4341489204/] [accessed 2 March 2015]
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view of font in context

the modern alabaster font at the west end of the nave, in the new Victorian Church of St. James
Scene Description: the modern alabaster font at the west end of the nave, in the new Victorian Church of St. James
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4341490498/] [accessed 2 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 19742ALV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Old Church of St. James [former parish church]
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: new church: Wellesbourne Road, Alveston, Warwickshire, CV37 7QJ [old church is on Mill Lane, Alveston, Warwickshire CV37 7QX]
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4086
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Pathlow [in Domesday]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/], for his photographs of these churches and modern font
Church Notes: tympanum from Old St. James' is 12thC
Font Notes:
There are two entries for this Alveston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2356/alveston/] [accessed 2 March 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Only the chancel section of the old 12th-century parish church has survived, much restored, but retains an old tympanum; no font remains from that church; the font in new St. James' is made of alabaster, very Victorian.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.208133, -1.663517
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 29.28″ N, 1° 39′ 48.66″ W
UTM: 30U 591322 5785030